Antonietta Iacono

Antonietta Iacono is an associate professor of Medieval latin literture and Humanistic studies at University of Naples Federico II. She has been carrying on critical, philological and literary surveys on humanistic writings, following such guidelines: neolatin literature models reception and reuse; problems in latin writings; humanistic storiography; humanistic-reinassance literature and culture, Laudes Urbium and local rhetoric.
Her works are characterized by a philological-erudite methodology (critical editions, comments, biographic studies and so on), and by the focus on historical and cultural reconstruction, with a particular focus on authors such as Giovanni Pontano, Iacono Sannazzaro, Lorenzo Valla, Procelio de’ Pandoni, Zanobi Acciaioli.